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i ; i I V ' i : ( ; 4 THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 21 1921. The Charlotte News Published By THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. Corner Fourth and Church Sts. done decently and in order and above board and not through the secrecy of the nightfall. For the present, however, the sovereign citizens of Charlotte are abundantly capable of attending to their business without the necessity of rely ing exclusively upon a couple of young w n rmvn Pres. nnrt flpn. MET, jp't ikv jvinL,ER Editor, and inexperienced attorneys and with- V. M. BELL. .Advertising Mgr. out any idea of turning over to them the task of concocting their governmen tal schemes in clandestine and attempt ing to execute them after the same TELEPHONES: Business Office 115 - I , -A.-. -J. 7,91 City Editor .......... ."WW" . Zn I contemptible. Intriguish fashion Editorial Rooms Printing House i MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to flie use for republication of all hews dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this nancr and also the local news published herein. . , . All rights of republication of special dispatches herein also are reserved. One SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier. year $iu.iu WHAT AVE SPEND FOR TOYS. You couldn't tell that this has been deliveries, etc., cannot be eliminated so long as wives and children whine as they do for the things they want. ' He" contended that the purpose of life is to make men rather than goods and to make men strong rather than com fortable; that what we need today is to rai.se the standard of citizenship be cause the world does not owe us a liv ing, since we all own the world alike. The real difficulty with the credit sit uation, he said, was that we are putting work into things that are gone in a moment, instead of building up on some thing definite. If the public would only consider the responsibility of spending !a dollar, much would be accomplished, - : 1 ; 1 . o lmrH vfioi. tl-ih iiDnnlo . rf t Vi 1 1! country from the money they haveJIr- Babson insisted. been spending for toys during the holi days. They have spent more than $100, 000.000 for such articles during the year 1921. according to the Trade Record published by the National City Bank of New York. The factory value of toys manufactured in the United States went up more than three times when the war Six months . . Three months t One month . . . One week 5.00 iwitlr Germany cut us off from the sup- By Mail 2.50 .85 .30 ply furnished by that country, and the value of the "toys and games" turned out by our factories in 1219, the latest One year 8.00 census year, is officially stated at $46,- SiX months 4.00 nnrt nnn ;ni s9i n(n nfin in tho nreoml. fM i-"".""" v-.,""", i TI;ree months 2.00 One month Sunday Only. me year , . . 2.60 ; Six months .30 TIMES DEMOCRAT. (Semi-Weekly) One year 1.50 Six months 75 "Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Charlotte. N. C, under he Act of March 3, 1897." ,15 'ing census year 1914. Meantime the im- I ports of toys which fell from ?8,000,000 He said, in conclusion, that we should think in terms of commodities rather thanin terms of dollars, and advocated putting back religion in the schools and teaching boys and girls principles, rather than so many facts. DINOSAUR TRAIL TOBE PRESERVED Three-toed Prints and Tail Marks in Connecticut Valley. career and was not making enougn money, they had not planned an early marriage. Last Saturday, however. I the girl confided to h'er sweetheart that she felt they should marry soon. They talked it over and decided that this was out of the question for financial reasons. Then came the resolve to die. They planned to make it Christ- : mas day, but, loath to bring grief to their families on such a holiday, they , waited until this morning. A visit ' n .nn.ai- rlfucr etnro nlirfhaSfl Of DOiS- Holyoke, Mcsb., Dec. 27. The trail j on wi;h whfch to "kill a dog" and of the dinosaur in the Connecticut i they went to the girl s home. Tliey - I 8 V. cittinor rnnm rrtrtat rf valley is to ne preserved it preseni plans are carried out. In the red GETTING INTO DEEP WATER. Under certain conditions of warfare one submarine is the fighting equal of the great battleship. The British seem satisfied with their battleship tonnage sandstone of "Dinosaur Ledge" at Smith's Ferry, on the bank of the Con necticut River, are the three toed prints and the tail marks of the mam moth reptile that lived millions of years ago. The chambers of commerce of Holyoke and Northampton are work ing on a petition for legislative action looking to preservation of the ledge, by its inclusion in the Mount Tom State Reservation. Dr. Edward Hitchcock, late president of Amherst College, discovered the ledge, with its two acre& or more o reptilian footprints, nearly 50 years ago. Some of the finest specimens were removed and placed in the col lege museum. Easily accessible from the State highway, the ledge has beeli were alone in the sitting room most of the evening and it was shortly after midnight that the girl staggered into her mother's room, suffering from con vulsions. While an ambulance surgeon was working on her, young Brands en tered in a similar condition. They were -.aken in the same ambulance to the hospital, where they died within two hours. "VVashineton conference, v..-. ,,i.,!,rfn i.mnnpd whollv! visited by thousands and it is desired ; M Li L ailL tiiV O uwniu - - r' -' TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 19J1. BIBLE THOUGHT FOR THE DAY. Eternal Protection: The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. Psalm 121. 8. THEY CAN SING. "We make no boast of knowing a great deal about music, but anybody who can make destinction beaween melodv .mrl machinery can estimate at least that in 5100,000.000 in 1921, despite the tenden- In the year prior to the war to a little j more than $1,000,000 in the year of its close, quickly advanced to $(1,000,000 in 1920 and $10,000,000 in 1921, so that the imports of toys in the fiscal year 1921 were actually greater in value than in any year preceding the war. 1 "While this unexpectedly prompt in flow of toys from foreign countries has somewhat reduced the outturn of the toy factories of the United States in the current year, the fact that the cap ital engaged in the industry advanced from over $10,000,000 in 1914 to probably $23,000,000 in 1919 in which year the number of employes exceeded 10,000. suggests that the outturn of our own factories in 1920-21, plus that of the doll factories which are not included in the group entitled "toys and games," plus the importation in 1921 of $10,000,000 worth of dolls and toys from abroad, with an aggregate factory valuation of considerably over $50,000,000, must have cost the "ultimate purchaser" fully and forever. On the other hand, the French are not entirely pleased with the fighting tonnage acorded them by the- decision on reduction of armaments, and are insisting upon the conference assuming a liberal attitude toward France in the matter of submarine ton nage allowances. This attitude on the part of the French is impelled by the fact that, to their way of thinking, they have lost in their first line navai ue fenses, and now are forced to make a stand on the question of auxiliary ton nage. Thus the conference is brought to face another particularly delicate prob lemthat of determining upon the aux iliary tonnage question without widen ing the breach which seems to have been slowiy but steadily developing be tween Britain and France. Really, it seems that the conference has at last gotten itself really in the midst of things. few cities of the country has there been gathered together a group of singers such as constitute the octet of the Goodfellow's Club. "We were among those who sat Wed nesday at the Goodfellows luncheon and listened to that organization as it charmed the 600 men present and made them believe, as we verily believe, that never has Charlotte heard any finer ringing than that. One doesn't have to go out of Char lotte any more for an exposition of .talent in any of the finer airs. Since the organization of this body of singers, that is notably true of music. The octet sang but two selections on the occasion to which we have imme diate reference, both Christmos carols, one striking a gloriously triumphant note and the other a soft, appealing har mony that was altogether enchanting. A gentleman from Chicago who was a visitor at the club luncheon declared himself slow to believe that the octet was made up of local singers, "for" he . declared, "it is so much better than the professional traveling organizations I have heard." Like a great many other American cities, Charlotte has had to stand a great deal of criticism from the artistic up lifters because of our lack of musical culture, but the day now is past when 'this community can be pointed to as one lacking in appreciation of the finer things in musical expression. The great artists who come here are invariably singing to large and under standing audiences, while the choral work being done by Mrs. Baker and others in like capacity arc receiving a large amount of commendation. The octette is composed of: Miss Ger trude Gower, soprano and director Miss Ruth Chapman, soprano, Miss Ina Har rison, contx'alto. Miss Rachel Summer row, contralto, J. C. Harley, tenor, -Fly-nn Wolfe, tenor, E. H. Bell, baritone, W. H. Xeal, baritone, and L. R. An schutz bass. cv toward economies which has charac terized trade conditions during the year. In one particular line of the toy in dustry and trade, the holiday season finds a distinct shortage, namely that of dolls. The number of doll factories in the United States greatly increased fol lowing the opening of the war, upon the assumption that the absence of the supply formerly drawn from Ger many would greatly intensify the de mands of the home market, but with the close of the war and the prospect of big imports from Germany and other countries of Europe as well as from Japan which had developed a considera ble toy trade during the war, many of the doll factories in the United States closed down, while the expected' in crease in importation of dolls did not materialize as rapidly as had been an ticipated, and as a consequence the holi day trade finds an extreme shorta'ge in this particular class of goods, devel oping an actual "famine" in dolls de spite the fact that the children of the United States are "crying for them." The happenings of the iar period above referred to, the shortage in toy supplies turned out in Europe and the big increase in those from our own fac tories, have resulted in a large growth in our toy exports meantime, which advanced from three-quarters of a mil lion dollars in the year immediately preceding the war to over $4,000,000 in the calendar year 1920, and today the children of over fifty countries and colonies of the world are hugging American dolls, while the exports of other classes of American toys in 1920 were distributed to nearly one hundred countries and colonies as against ap proximately half that number in the year preceding the war. SHORT FREEDOM FOR BLOCKADERS Take Shot at Officers Dig ging Up Pipe Line and Land in Jail. Asheville, Dec. 27. Merrimon and Baird Whittemore, two men released from the county jail yesterday on $1,- 000 bond each on charges of manufac turing whiskey, followed the capture by de niities Thursday morning of five men m a dugout shielding a 60-gallon still, are back in jail. Guy Metcalf, a neighbor aiso living in tho Barnards- ville section where ths men were cap tured, is also behind the bars. While John Bunn, a county officer and two other men were digging up the pipe line which ran nearly a quar ter of a mile from a spring to the dugout, near the Whittemore home, Thursday night, they were ni;ed upon by one of the three men now in jail. A pistol duel between Bunn and the three men objecting to the removal of the pipe line resulted in the retirement of the attacking party. Deputies of Sheriff John A. Lyerly's department Sunday night located the three men and landed them in jail where they are to be arraigned on charges of resist ing an officer, carrying . concealed weapons and assault. i j Furtner investigation of the dugout j reveals the fact that it is one of the most complete still sites ever discover ed by the officers in this section. En trance to the 12 by 12-foot room carved out of the mountain side was had by means of a tunnel about 30 feet long. Heavy timber supports braced the sides and roof of the underground room. Running water, piped from a spring a quarter of a mile from the dugout, made it possible for persons to carry on distilling without going out of the cavern. to protect its markings from damage by vandals and souvenir hunters. Prof. W. J. Miller, of Smith College, says that the three-toed footmarks, varying from three and four to 13 and j 16 inches in length, were made in j flood-covered mud that hardened when j the water receded. This was overlaid ! perhaps thousands of feet deep by sue- j CCKSlve aeposilS uuriug Liie AiiiiEcui; ie- riod. In succeeding geological ages erosion of the overlying strata exposed the tracks again to the light. So per fect were the impiessions taken by the mud that ripple marks left by the re ceding waters are clearly visible. Dr. W. D. Matthew, curator of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, believes the Connecticut Valley dinosaut footprints date back to the beginning of the age of reptiles. During the whole of this age, estimated at ten million years or more, the dino saurs were the dominant land animals, as the higher quadruples had not ap peared in force. The dinosaurs are supposed to have- disappeared eight million years ago. Relatively few remains have been found Gf the animals that made these footprints. Part of a skeleton is pre served in the Yale Museum and com plete -skeleton ? have been found in Ger many. Remains of the dinosaurs of the later Creaceous period, larger and stranger looking than those of the Triassic, are les rare. -There were nunnerous species of the Triassic dinosaurs. Some reached a height of 25 feet according to geoJo pists. Some walked nearly erect on the hind ftet, using their long tail as a support. In appearance they are sup posed to have resembled gigantic liz ards. The climate of the Connecticut Yal ley when these monsters roamed the earth is said by Prof. Loomis of Am herst College to have been something like that of Arizona today, hot and dry, though not tropical. Some. of the dinosaurs are supposed to have been carnivorous, while other species sub sisted upon plant life. H ow About New Hat? THE PEOPLE xRE STILL FUNC TIONING. If the people of Charlotte have a de sire to bring about a vital change in the constitution of their government, it ' is their privilege. They certainly ought to be regarded as competent to accom plish such a task. Theey created the charter as it now stands. If it has any points of weakness, It is their business to remedy it. The creator is always regarded as more powerful and impor tant than the creature, at least it is generally credited with having super vision and control over the creature. It was by a popular vote of the citizens of this whole city that the present char ter was accepted and became the muni cipal law. If any further changes are to be made in it. such, obviously, fall within the scope of the jurisdiction of the same people. The citizens have not yet decided to turn the entire job over to a couple of young attorneys and invest them with complete authority to give the city whatever may occur to them as neces sary in the premises, to make any cor rections in the charter which seem expe dient to them, to increase the powers of one officer and decrease the powers of others according only to their whims and caprices. The citizens have not done that yet. They are still in authority in Charlotte and will continue to be. When the people determine that they should like to engage the services of one law yer or two or a dozen to re-construct their charter in all of its more vital phases, they will notify such attorneys and may, in such an event, be able to utilize their readiness and forwardness in serving their fellow-citizens. If that moment should come, however, the proposition would: be laid plainly be fore the intelligences of the people and the reform would be brought about in the good, old-fashioned way of being SOMEBODY RAKES IT IN. Some time ago somebody who prob ably didn't have very much to do except deal with the problems of arithmetical progression figured out about how much money somebody made dealing in cotton between the time it left the hands of the producer and entered the mill of the manufacturer. He estimated, according to the figures as to prices received by farmers and paid by manufacturers, that there were hundreds upon hun dreds of thousands of dollars which neither the producer nor the manufac turer got In their handling of cotton. It would be interesting to know also about what is the size of the pile raked in from cotton by those who handle it after it has left the finishing plant, TOO POOR TO MARRY, TWO DEATHS RESULT Passaic, N. J., Dec. 27. Too poor to marry. That was the reason that impelled Thomas Brands. 18. and his sweetheart, Matilda Rist, 17. to take their lives by poison here early today, the boy told the police at the General Hospital, where he died. Because of their youth and the fact that Brands was just starting on his j You will find them in these all tne new shades of Browns and Greys . See the colors and the wTo.nderful values we are offering at HAR9ELUS BODY IS FOUND IN MITCHELL After Breakfast, After Dinner, After Supper After Breakfast, After Pj After Supper ?akfast. After feftpr. Si inner dast, After ger Supper Ashaville, Dec. 27. Mystery which for months surrounded the disappear ance of B. L Harsell, wealthy club man and sportsman of New York, who has been missing since last April, - is believed to have been solved with the identification of a body found in the woods of Mitchell county, North Caro lina, as that of the missing clubman. Detective Elmo W. Brim, of Galax, Va., reports having tracked the club man over 1,500 miles, 240 of which he made on foot through the Appalachian mountains, and claims to have infor mation that Harsell was murdered by parties in the Pigeon Roost Creek sec tion of Mitchell county. Upon leaving New York, Mr. Har sell announced he would walk from Roanoke, Va., to North Georgia for the purpose of hardening: his muwcles i and preparing for a big game hunt in j a foreign country, which he contem plated with other New York clubmen. He was to write his brother each 30 ' days of his whereabouts, and after l Aftef Dinne After Dinner, After Br Dinner, st. After Supper After upper per $m So. Tryon jer )er er more than a. month hart plnnseil nr after the manufacturer is through, with j no word had been received, a hunt it, and before it comes back to clothe the human body. Robert Babson, the noted statistician, has been making a round of the country, experimenting a little in this direc tion and from what he observed by ac tual experience, he has indicated that somebody needs to take hold of our pro duction and distribution problem in this country and give it a sound threshing. He told 800 business men of Pittsburg that he had bought a cotton waist in a Cleveland store and paid $6.95 for it. He took it to , a lapidary's scale- and weighed it, finding that it weighed four ounces; that the raw cotton in it was worth four cents and that the mill mak ing the material out of which the waist was fabricated got about 10 cents for the goods, all of the materials in it costing the enormous sum of 15 cento. A merchant told him that the difference between the ultimate cost of the gar ment and the cost of the materials in it was started. Detectives arrived here about six weeks ago and began work upon a new clue which led them over Mount Mitch ell, highest peak east of the Rocky Mountains, through the mountainous sections of Yancey county and into a rembte section of Mitchell, where the body was found. MANY POILUS KILLED BY OWN ARTILLERY Paris, Dec. 27. General Percin, in a book describing more than 200 battles in France and Belgium during the late war, concludes frbm data collected by him that 75,000 French soldiers were killed ty their own artillery through defective liaison. The losses, he says, were higher by 50 per cent in the French army than in the German army. The losses of the French infantry, he finds, were comparatively four times greater than the losses of the artillery. He fixes the French losses from the enemy's fire at a.i 'i.uoo killed and wounded General Percin was militarv envpr. nor of thp fnrtroco vf T.ill inst a. represented the price for style. He took the outbreak of the war. He evaru- a cotton handkerchief, held it up before his audience and told the crowd that it had less than one-half of one cent's worth of cotton in the mill making it got 3 to 3 and one-half cents out of it, but he paid 35 cents for ot. Another point Mr. Babson stressed was that the gtcat loss in seasonal buy ing, return of goods and the expense of ated the fortress on orders received from the Government when the Ger mans approached the frontier and was, for a long time, supposed byrthe general public to have evacuated the place of his own volition. A lively con troversy between his friends and ad versaries has, been going on ever s'nee as to whether he was badlv treated lw ! the General Staff. He has severely crit icised the conduct of the war in the j field by the French staff. ' After Bre Dinner, Afte After Breakfast Dinner, After Supper After Breakfast, After ber Df D: )er TPAOE MASK Ai . er Your VI Dealer . er Ai ef Dinner, After Supper After Breakfast, After Dinner, After Supper OSTEOPATHY Is the science of healing by adjustment. DR. H. F. RAY 313 Realty Bldg. DR. FRANK LANE MILLER 610 Realty Bldg. DR. ARTHUR M. DYE . 224 Piedmont Bldg. Osteopaths. Charlotte, X. C. 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Today we offer unusual bargains in every depart ment including Ladies' and Misses' Coat Suits, Dresses, Coats, plain collars or with handsome fur col lars and cuffs Piece Goods Shoes Men's and Boys' Suits and Overcoats, etc., in a big variety of materials, styles, etc. REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU NEED YOU WILL FIND IT HERE AND AT PRICES THAT PROVE WE "SELL IT FOR LESS" ui mm "W8 5BLL IT FOR LBSS" j f. 9 n